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What to do if your WordPress or Joomla site has been hacked
Learn how to investigate a suspected hacked WordPress or Joomla! website, identify malicious changes, remove malware, and secure your site against future attacks.
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Introducing Google Lighthouse Website Quality Monitoring in Watchful
Watchful introduces performance drop detection for Lighthouse beta testers, with automatic warnings when website performance declines significantly.
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Come meet these website development experts in our virtual booth at JDay USA
JDay USA is nearly here and we’re super excited to participate again this year. We love sponsoring this event, and once again we’ll host website development experts in our virtual sponsor booth. I’ll also be giving a talk on using Cloudflare to improve the performance of your website. Cloudflare has Read more
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How to quickly install urgent website updates
Recently a Watchful Premium user contacted our support team with an urgent request. An update for a custom theme had been released, but it was not yet appearing in Watchful’s updater. Was there another way to install urgent website updates across all the affected sites? Before we give the solution, Read more
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How many sites are updating to the latest version of Joomla?
Updating to the latest version of Joomla is perhaps the single most important way to keep your website safe. The latest supported versions of Joomla are the 3.10.x series and the 4.0.x series. All Joomla users should be running one of these two major versions. In August of 2021, Joomla Read more
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How to apply premium YooTheme updates in 2022 and beyond.
Like may premium software developers, license keys are used to apply premium YooTheme updates to their users websites. Surprisingly, YooTheme announced a big change their licensing system a few days before Christmas. The licensing change prevented Watchful users from mass-updating YooThemes paid Joomla extensions. In the weeks since the announcement, Read more
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The two important changes needed to future-proof Joomla 4 updates
Image credit: Brian Teeman. Joomla 4.0.4 launched on October 26, 2021. It includes changes that make the Joomla update process more efficient, but may also break the update process. Below we will review the steps needed to fix this and future-proof Joomla 4 updates. Why are changes needed? Joomla 4.0.4 Read more
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What is happening with Watchful apps?
atchful apps are plugins for your website. Once installed, they extend the functionality of Watchful itself. But since we don’t talk about them much, you may be wondering “What is happening with Watchful Apps?”. Below we’ll give you some updates on Watchful Apps including some recent changes and future plans. Read more
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Under the hood: API update for backup plugin selection
As you may have seen, we have been upgrading Watchfuls Akeeba Backup Pro (ABP) integration over the last few months. The Watchful API update for backup plugin selection that supported this process is now available. Why is this change happening? In 2019, ABP 7 was released for both Joomla and WordPress. Read more
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How the downturn in print media inspired this journalist to build a website maintenance agency
Adrian Rodriguez loved to write from an early age. He could often be found penning short stories and poems. But his grades in school didn’t always reflect his love of the written word. After doing poorly on an English exam, Adrian convinced his teachers to swap retaking the exam with Read more